All articles by Nick Hull – Page 12
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Design Review: Citroën C4 Picasso
First impressions of the interior are very positive, with a wealth of innovative new features and a high quality of fit and finish. The IP features instruments mounted in a central screen with a two-tone background and five possible color settings. As on the C4, there's a fixed-hub steering wheel, ...
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Design Review: Citroën C4 Picasso
The new C4 Picasso is a new 7-seat MPV based on the C4 platform which uses Citroen's new form language and themes previewed in the recent C-SportLounge and C-AirLounge concepts. Although it will sit between the existing Xsara Picasso and C8 in Citroen's MPV line-up, it's also cleverly targeted to ...
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Design Review: Mini Concept Frankfurt
The Mini Concept Frankfurt offers a glimpse of how Mini brand might be extended in future to offer a premium coupe-station wagon bodystyle that references the Mini Traveller launched exactly 45 years ago. The Morris Mini Traveller and Austin Countryman were popular estate versions of the Mini, which were targeted ...
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Design Review: Mini Concept Frankfurt
The Mini Concept Frankfurt offers a glimpse of how Mini brand might be extended in future to offer a premium coupe-station wagon bodystyle that references the Mini Traveller launched exactly 45 years ago. The Morris Mini Traveller and Austin Countryman were popular estate versions of the Mini, which were targeted ...
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Goodwood Revival 2010
The Revival is one of two big motoring events hosted at Goodwood in the UK each year and has now become the world's largest historic motor race meeting, reliving the heyday of the Goodwood Motor Circuit from 1948-66. Of all the Goodwood events this is the most focused, aiming to ...
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Interview: Thierry Metroz, Design Director, Citroën
The big Metropolis showcar: Might this be developed for production and is this for China only?
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Interview: Thierry Metroz, Design Director, Citroën
Thierry Metroz is a rare breed in the car design world: a designer who has spent his entire career of 25 years working for the same company - Renault. In fact, many insiders tipped him to replace Patrick le Quement as head of Renault Design in 2009. But instead he ...
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Design Review: Peugeot HR1 concept
The front end design is lifted directly from the SR1, including the new corporate grille and flowing shutlines that provide such a strong graphic quality to these latest Peugeot designs. Note the way the hood shutline starts a long way inboard, swooping outwards through the headlamp then turn sharply inwards ...
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Design Review: Peugeot HR1 concept
Peugeot design has gone through a massive shift in the last couple of years, not least because of a generation change in design management from Gerard Welter, through Gerôme Gallix to current design director Gilles Vidal in late 2009. Since then, we've seen Peugeot become quite aggressive in showing their ...
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Designer Interview: Jean-Pierre Ploué, Director of Citroën Design
Jean-Pierre Ploué, Director of Citroën Design, has overseen a quick succession of new models since taking up the post in 2000. Although he arrived just after the C5 was completed, his legacy has moved Citroën design into a new era starting from the C3, followed by the C2, C6 and ...
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Design Development: Mini Clubman
The split-door opening is ingenious however. To allow as wide an opening as possible, the hinges are positioned outboard of the tail lamps and each door closes around the lamp unit. But it was complicated with the hinge point, the strut and the DIN regulations on the lamp too. "This ...
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Design Development: Mini Clubman
The Mini Clubman is the third derivative of the Mini family to be launched since its introduction in 2001. The unique station wagon body style references the original Morris Mini Traveller and Austin Mini Countryman introduced in 1960 under the motto "Revolutionary in concept, smart in appearance". Indeed, that slogan ...
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Goodwood Festival of Speed 2010
Seeing cars such as these that have often only been glimpsed in photos makes one view them in a new light, to reappraise the lines and look at details more closely in the sharp sunlight. For instance, one forgets how the Carabo used mirror bronze glass and that the rear ...
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Goodwood Festival of Speed 2010
The UK's Goodwood Festival of Speed is the largest motoring garden party in the world - a unique summer weekend that brings together a great mix of cars, stars and motor sport ‘royalty' to create the largest car culture event in the world. Now in its 18th year, the Festival ...
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Design Development: Citroën C3 Picasso
In 2006, a see-through mock-up was shown to selected members of the public in a design clinic, which indicated that the design gave quite a polarized reaction: some loved it, some disliked it. "But, importantly" said Bonzanigo, "Young people were really enthused by it."
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Design Development: Citroën C3 Picasso
The new Citroën C3 Picasso - codename A58 - was born in 2004 to a clear 'cahier de charges', or 'brief' within the company: to design a small monospace on a current PSA platform with an unconventional design. The design was meant to immediately communicates the following aspects: unrestricted visibility ...
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Design Review: Citroën Hypnos concept
The interior - by designers Leighanne Earley and Francois Duris - is remarkable for its extremely complex interplay of 3D shapes, 2D graphics and the kaleidoscope of colors. The dominant theme is the four rainbow-colored shell-like seats in a staggered configuration and the controls that swivel out of the spiral ...
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Design Review: Citroën Hypnos concept
Here at CDN, we often lament the way that concept cars are all-too-often little more than pre-production prototypes of a forthcoming model, whereas in the past, they were often unashamed flights of fancy from the advanced design teams. But Citroën is an exception: their line of concepts stretching from 2002 ...
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Exclusive: Bertone BAT 11 unveiled
For the first time in over 50 years, Bertone sadly did not have a stand at this year's Geneva Show, largely due to the severe financial difficulties facing the company. However, that didn't stop them making a surprise debut at the first AutoDesignNight last night in Geneva with the amazing ...
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Design Review: Renault Altica
However, it's the interior of this concept that impresses most. Accessed through butterfly doors, one is immediately struck by the sense of space provided by the lack of an IP. While it's not the first car to attempt this, the Altica offers one the nicest solutions yet to this idea. ...